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Originally Posted by Charlie Hough
Hopefully your game can be fixed, but I have to be honest: if you're trying to maintain a long-term saved game across versions, I think you're asking for trouble. There is no computer game in the world that can convert saved games across seven versions without possible problems. I would never expect this to work with any product.
To me, you're better off continuing old saved games on previous versions and using the new versions of the software to create newer saved games.
People forget that the vast majority of products won't even allow you to convert a saved game from the previous version to the current one, let alone allow you to convert across seven years of the product.
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I personally haven't had any issues with this feature, and have converted a league from 12 to 13 to 14 with no issues. That said, I disagree with the sentiment in this post.
One of the things about OOTP that makes it significantly superior to most other similar (or even dissimilar) games on the market is the very capability to move saved games from version to version. Referring to the utilization of that same capability as "asking for trouble" seems to indicate that users should not expect one of the key differentiating features of the game (and one of the biggest reasons to purchase it every year, by the way, as one gets to add new features into existing, often excruciatingly-customized leagues) to actually work, and I think that would be a problem. Obviously, after a certain number of versions, you'd expect some "copy of a copy of a copy" problems (The Asgard problem, as I'm sure TheGame will appreciate), but over 3-5 versions or so, I'd expect the game to work as advertised, not for a primary feature to be considered too risky/flaky to be used.